Meaning of RangRasiya

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Posted: 11 years ago
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Believe it or not, I am still in the process of finding the exact meaning of the term RangRasiya. I could only find the term "Rang Ras" in a classical Urdu dictionary which is translated as "gay life" in English.

I found another meaning for the term online: "the one who romances with the colors."

Source: http://www.echo-india.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=43&Itemid=156


The third meaning I found is "Colour of Passion." This is an English translation for the title of Ketan Mehta's Bilingual movie RangRasiya released in 2010.


One of our fellow forum members Carbelli has chosen to translate it as "Beloved."

A fourth meaning would be someone madly in love with colors or a "Passionate Lover of Colors"


I am making this thread in the hope to find the exact meaning of the term as per our show RangRasiya. I'll keep adding layers of meaning to this complex term until we find the best translation even though I am convinced that we will never find the exact English equivalent.

Request: Please keep adding your input too and I'll highlight them on the main post here. Together we shall decode it one day!

To the meaning of RangRasiya: Kab tak chupo gay, kabhi toh miloge...!



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Posted: 11 years ago
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Interesting.

There's apparently a term used "Banarasiya" in an old song. The writer here explains that it has a dual meaning. It could either mean a person who comes from Banaras or if we separate the words as Bana Rasiya, it would mean "became a mad lover." Now we all know that the hindi word Bana exactly translates as "became" in English. That is, rasiya is left as the mad lover.


Now we have RangRasiya. If Rasiya is a mad lover then could we put the two together (Rang + Rasiya) to yield "a passionate lover of colors"?
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Interesting topic.

OK, here's my try...

"Rang" means colour and "Rasiya" means lover or beloved. Putting it together it would mean a beloved who colours you with his/her colour ie. become part of each other, become soulmates.

This is my take...when two individuals cease to exist and become one in soul.
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Hope this is of help, I understood Vicky's explanation😳

Originally posted by: MoronsKiMallika

Rangrasiya means a man of many passions, tastes and of good things in life. That is what it means on paper. In the show, it refers to Rudra as a man , a lover of many shades that both baffles and intrigues Paro.


If you notice, the title song of this show is from Paro's POV .Of how she sees Rudra and is caught in his mystery and well, his cruelty ( Rahhe kyun rootha-rootha lines were from her side to Rudra.)

Hope its clear to you, now. 😳

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Posted: 11 years ago
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according to me rang risya means a person who is behind colours such as youth, love. risya is a term given to a person with colourful heart but doesnot stay at place forever. after taking colur from one place it flys to second place in search of colour or love. for eg. bee goes around for honey. rang can be roop which means colour of youth, innocence. overall it is a term for flirting type of guy.
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Thx 4 d post...I also wanna knw d exact meaning
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Thanks for the post guys!
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Posted: 11 years ago
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Good Effort.
Till we find correct relevant meaning How about this?

Instead of "the one who romances with the colors."

==>
"the one who romances on "colors."


No offence intended. Just for fun.

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Posted: 11 years ago
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hahaha. Yeah that is true though, and may be thats why they have prefixed the rang in front of Rasiya.
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Posted: 11 years ago
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u r serching a meaning of a hindi word in urdu , how can u get correct , there r many hindi words whoes meaning is completely different in other language

ex - hug - hindi meaning is total diffrent but english mening is " gale lagna "

http://dict.hinkhoj.com/words/meaning-of-%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE-in-english.html


it is braj launguage , krishna nagari ...u should see it in braj bhasha dictionary bcs dis word belong from theire folk songs , rang rasia have many meanings not one ,in evry situation inka diffrent meaning hota hai

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